(Stacker) – Over 9 million veterans receive healthcare through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), but as many as 1.5 million remain uninsured — amounting to about 6% of veterans nationwide (or one out of every 15 veterans), data shows. These insurance gaps mean that many who served our country go without necessary healthcare each year
Wisconsin ranks among 10 states with the most uninsured veterans
A shocking new report in the Texas Tribune reveals that state health officials illegally turned over 800 infant blood samples to a federal DNA database to be used not for medical research but forensic crime fighting.
Texas secretly gave newborns’ blood to federal DNA database
H/T: Steve Lehto
Previously:
Without informed consent from newborns’ parents, officials must destroy blood samples, lawsuit says
Civil rights group sues New Jersey to stop secret storage, use of baby blood spots
One large health system with hospitals in Virginia and Ohio this year cut off in-network access to consumers enrolled in some Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare and Medicaid health insurance plans.
Hospitals, doctors drop private Medicare plans over payment disputes
Related:
Vanderbilt Health to drop some Medicare Advantage plans
H/T: Christopher Westfall | Senior Savings Network (this is not an endorsement)
Yves here. Having lowest of low end retailers take a flier with mobile clinics is yet another proof of the poor state of health care in the US. I would be curious to learn how countries in Europe encourage/incentivize doctors to practice out in the boonies. One can envision remedies, like scholarships for doctors who agree to practice in designated areas for at least five years, but dreaming up solutions and getting them implemented are in two different universes.
Needless to say, giving the poverty of local alternatives, some of the users of this service are fans. But your humble blogger is not comfortable with a purely profit-motivated party so remote from the health care industry providing treatments.
What Mobile Clinics in Dollar General Parking Lots Say About Health Care in Rural America
Kid Rock was spotted drinking a Bud Light recently. He claims it was research for a new book that he is writing. Kid Rock told Madhouse News, “Things are not what they seem. I am an innocent man, it was merely research for a new book that I am working on.”
Kid Rock Claims Drinking Bud Light Was Research For New Book
Americans must unite to reject 21st Century ‘alien land laws’
Now, taking a page from DeSantis, Congress is considering inserting an amendment into the National Defense Authorization Act that would ban visa holders from targeted countries from making certain agricultural purchases. These restrictions would apply to all 50 states, and be based solely on national heritage. This is wrong and legislators must reject it.
Related:
Banning foreign ownership of land doesn’t protect US. It just scapegoats Asian Americans.
NEW TAZEWELL, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) – A Tennessee family can rest easier knowing that a priceless teddy bear full of meaning has been replaced.
Build-A-Bear replaces girl’s lost teddy bear containing sound of mother’s heartbeat
Previously:
4-year-old Tennessee girl in search of a bear that has a piece of her late mother
Less than half of Americans in a new Monmouth University Poll said they’ll support an assault weapons ban in the country, down from a similar poll taken last year.
Fewer Americans support assault weapon ban: survey
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